Author | Brown, Tony. author |
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Title | Mathematics Education and Language [electronic resource] : Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism / by Tony Brown |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001 |
Edition | Revised Second Edition |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0726-9 |
Descript | X, 306 p. 1 illus. online resource |
Short Review of Recent Research -- 1. Hermeneutics and Mathematics Education -- Action and Meaning -- Phenomenology -- Hermeneutics -- Hermeneutics and Education -- Towards an Hermeneutical Understanding of Mathematics -- 2. The Production of Mathematical Meaning: A Post-Structuralist Perspective -- Post-Structuralism: A Radical Form of Hermeneutics -- Post-Structuralism, Education and Mathematics -- Saussurian Linguistics and Mathematics -- Self-Reflexivity in Mathematical Engagement -- Creating and Inheriting Mathematics -- 3. Sharing Mathematical Perspectives -- Discourse or Reality? -- Locating Mathematical Knowledge -- Assessing Mathematical Activity -- Combining Language and Experience -- 4. Some Lessons -- 5. The Phenomenology of the Mathematics Classroom -- Personal Space -- Appresentational Association -- Acting in the Supposed World -- 6. Teacher-Student Interactions -- 7. Narratives of Learning Mathematics -- Multiple Accounts -- The Transition from Arithmetical to Algebraic Thinking -- Storying Transition -- Semantic Innovation -- Concluding Comments -- 8. Mathematics and Language -- 9. Developing Teacher Practice -- Writing as a Mechanism for Professional Development -- Building a Professional Discourse of Mathematics Teaching within an Initial Training Course -- Building an Understanding of the Teacherโs Task through Practitioner Enquiry -- 10. Mathematical Cultures -- 11. The Social Constitution of Mathematics -- References -- Name Index